Did you ever have a milk man deliver milk to your house?

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I did when I was real young.  It stopped because people were buying it in the store.  We used to have a local farmer deliver egg too. 

https://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/milkman-cometh/

[Prophet Zacharia]

Not that I recall. I remember neighbors with insulated milk boxes on their porches, but I think they were already relics at that point. When I was about 5 years old, they had a snack food delivery service Charle’s Chips that would refill your metal container with chips and maybe pretzels. 
 

Now, I have Amazon and get coffee, cat food, cat litter, paper products and a host of other food delivered monthly, straight to my door.

[Square Wheels]

As a kid we did.

[bikeman564™]

No but our house I grew up in, had a tiny door at the side door like this. I think this was for milk. There would of been an indoor one as well, but my dad paneled over it.

[Kzoo]

Not that I remember but about the time I was born my dad had a job as a milkman.

 

[ChrisL]

I remember my mom saying they had milk delivery back in the day.  I want to say bread & eggs too but am not certain.

With 8 kids (before I was born) I’m sure the delivery came in handy.

[jsharr ★]

We did in Oklahoma.  It came in like 2.5 gallon jugs with a spigot on the front like this water jug.



We drank a lot of milk back in the day 
 

[Rattlecan ★]

Yup. We had door to door milk delivery when I was a kid. The milk came in reusable glass bottles, so we were green long before it was a thing. Also had bread and meat delivery way out in the boonies too.

 The meat man kept a box of bulk wieners in the back of his panel truck (yeah, panel truck. I am that old) and when he pulled up and blew his horn, all the kids would come running and he would hand out the wieners.

[maddmaxx ★]

Yes.  We had that little insulated box outside in a shaded place and we left empty bottles and go full ones in return.

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20 minutes ago, jsharr said:

We did in Oklahoma.  It came in like 2.5 gallon jugs with a spigot on the front like this water jug.



We drank a lot of milk back in the day 
 

I remember those.  I don't remember if it was delivered though.  I do remember we had an insulated box that sat outside the garage door.

[Zephyr]

Growing up through high school, with 3 boys all close together in age, we had milk delivered 5 days a week.  Whoever was up first had to open the door and get the milk.  Mom would leave the money in a jar on the step all night for the milkman in the morning.  It was a different time

[Randomguy]

We had glass bottles of milk in quarts or half-gallons delivered when I was very young.  Milk did taste better then, I am convinced of this.

[Prophet Zacharia]

38 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

Not that I remember but about the time I was born my dad had a job as a milkman.

 

And here I thought people being told their father was the milkman was intended as an insult. Or is that only true for the mailman?

[Prophet Zacharia]

6 minutes ago, Zephyr said:

Growing up through high school, with 3 boys all close together in age, we had milk delivered 5 days a week.  Whoever was up first had to open the door and get the milk.  Mom would leave the money in a jar on the step all night for the milkman in the morning.  It was a different time

That was before milk came in bags?

[groupw]

We had the milk delivery and glass bottles for a couple years. We loved summer days because he had ice cream bars and fudgecicles as well. When we moved to a little town nearby, there was no milk delivery there. 

[Randomguy]

30 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

That was before milk came in bags?

I have still never seen this abomination.  

[Bikeguy]

Yeah I remember getting milk delivered to our home.

Of course that means... we are all VERY old. 

[Tizeye]

As recently as the mid 1980's when stationed in England it was very common. An unrefrigerated flatbed truck, but with British temps, didn't really matter. Birds would peck through the foil top on the glass bottles if you didn't retrieve them first thing in the morning. Could order all varieties, including non-homogenized so the cream would separate. I brought a couple of bottles back as a souvenir. 

[Zephyr]

39 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

That was before milk came in bags?

Started with bottles but by the time I was in school it was 6 bags of milk a day

[Guest]

49 minutes ago, Zephyr said:

Growing up through high school, with 3 boys all close together in age, we had milk delivered 5 days a week.  Whoever was up first had to open the door and get the milk.  Mom would leave the money in a jar on the step all night for the milkman in the morning.  It was a different time

Similar to how I grew up.

[Prophet Zacharia]

7 minutes ago, Tizeye said:

I brought a couple of bottles back as a souvenir.

I bet they are cheese by now.

[TrentonMakes]

 No, unless you count my dad bringing it into the house in a pail, when we had goats. 

[Tizeye]

And how could I forget. My grandfather owned a dairy and did delivery runs. He died before I was born. I am named after him as an agreement with my mother and her brothers, the first born male of my generation would be named after their dad.
 

[Longjohn ★]

We had milk delivery until I was 16. That’s when my mom found someone that didn’t mind driving out to the dairy farm for fresh milk. I even got to drive the family car most of the time (saves my gas).

When my dad was young he used to milk their cows, load it on the milk wagon and deliver it door to door before school each morning.

When I bought this property my dad would come out to visit and he would watch my Amish neighbors putting up hay and plowing and doing other farm work with the team of horses and he would say “that’s exactly how we used to do it

[Digital_photog ★]

I carried lots of milk from the barn to the house morning and evening.  Was that milk delivery?

[Longjohn ★]

5 minutes ago, Tizeye said:

My grandfather owned a dairy and did delivery runs. He died before I was born. I am named after him as an agreement with my mother and her brothers, the first born male of my generation would be named after their dad.

Your grandfather was named Tizeye? 

[Tizeye]

6 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

Your grandfather was named Tizeye? 

Oh what burdens we have to bear as parents select names for kids.

[2Far ★]

Yep, it ceased when we moved to rural NYS (kinda around the corner from where @Aireheadlived now) in '68. They had 3 under 3 when they moved into that house, dunno how they kept it stocked with milk, I sort recall one of those big longitudinal plastic jugs in the fridge.

[Kirby]

I don't think so, although I recall my Grandmother had one when I was very young.  Or maybe she still just had the box sitting there.  I'll have to ask my sister with the very good memory.

[JerrySTL ★]

We did when we lived in England from 1988 to 1992. They also delivered cheeses and many other products. Just leave a note in the empty bottle. The "Milk Float" was a battery powered delivery vehicle which was pretty large.

[Kirby]

1 hour ago, Kirby said:

I don't think so, although I recall my Grandmother had one when I was very young.  Or maybe she still just had the box sitting there.  I'll have to ask my sister with the very good memory.

My sister with the good memory informs me that we had one as well outside our apartment in the city.  Apparently we'd sit on the milk box to take our boots on and off in the winter.

[maddmaxx ★]

 Our favorite milkman.

[Kirby]

This topic just started a 30 minute text conversation with my sisters about all sorts of milk related topics.

[Further]

We had an insulated milk box on the porch. Leave the money inside it in an envelope & the empty bottles and find a full bottle in the morning. Glass bottle with a cardboard top.

[Square Wheels]

This is a perfect thread for @AirwickWithCheese.

[Wilbur ★]

3 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

This is a perfect thread for @AirwickWithCheese.

I have given up on baiting.  If and when he wants, he will pop in. 

[Square Wheels]

7 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

I have given up on baiting.  If and when he wants, he will pop in. 

Think of the milk delivery stories he could regale us with.

[MickinMD ★]

On 5/12/2020 at 1:48 PM, Rick5234 said:

I did when I was real young.  It stopped because people were buying it in the store.  We used to have a local farmer deliver egg too. 

https://modernfarmer.com/2014/05/milkman-cometh/

I remember it when I was real young to.  It must have stopped when I was around 10 (1960) or younger.

It was REAL milk with lots of cream.  The bottles had aluminum foil caps and, in winter, the bottles would get really cold sitting outside and the cream would separate out and push the cap off the bottle as a banana-like curving solid.  My mother would sprinkle a little sugar or honey on it and let me eat the "ice cream!"
 

[Wilbur ★]

2 hours ago, Square Wheels said:

Think of the milk delivery stories he could regale us with.

Pfft!  My Palm Dairies milkman looked like Dick Clark.